Decentralized Power Distribution Architectures for Efficient Automotive Designs

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Inland Empire Utilities Agency and Advanced Microgrid Solutions launch first-of-its-kind energy storage project.

SEMI’s September book-to-bill ratio was 1.05. September bookings were $1.60 billion – 8.5% lower than August’s $1.75 billion, and is 3.2% higher than the September 2015 order level of $1.55 billion. September billings were $1.53 billion – 10.2% lower than August’s $1.71 billion, and 2.6% higher than the September 2015 billings level of $1.50 billion. …

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Toshiba has expanded its family of automotive power MOSFETs with the TK1R5R04PB – the first device in its new low-resistance D2PAK+ package. While the D2PAK+ has the same footprint as a conventional D2PAK (or TO-263) package, it offers reduced package resistance. This is thanks to a source pin that is much wider near to the …

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Segger wants to make it easier to get true instruction trace up and running with its new Cortex-M Trace reference board.

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Dean Miles  describes how an optically isolated probe can overcome common mode interference measurement challenges. Advancements in power conversion components have far outpaced the ability to accurately measure and characterise these designs. Engineers working on power device designs involving GaN and SiC technologies and other high-speed applications currently have no way to accurately measure differential …

Read full article: Optical probes work for high speed measurement, says Tektronix

Prospects of a significant boost to Europe’s industrial electronics markets comes as the industry prepares to travel to Munich for next month’s Electronica exhibition. Europe’s automotive, health, transport and energy sectors could be in line for a €100bn a year windfall following the introduction of 5G mobile communications services. A study for the European Commission …

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The UK’s manufacturing sector is generally reacting positively to the Brexit referendum. New market figures from the electronics supply chain are better than expected, according to Adam Fletcher, chairman of the Electronic Components Supply Network UK manufacturing generally weakens in August each year as a result of organisational summer holidays. According to Fletcher, while overall …

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German bombing in WWII exacted a heavy toll which would have been heavier if RV Jones hadn’t figured out a way of diverting it. Jones reckoned the bombers were finding their way by using Lorenz-type radio beams called Knickebein (crooked leg) beams. Called into a Cabinet Meeting at the age of 28 to explains his …

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Binstead Designs of Nottingham has developed a way to increase touch-screen resolution without increasing the number of electrical connections.

Read full article: Better touch screens, from Nottingham